Well no need to change anything in BIOS, it will work fine with hard drives set as IDE. Also no need to add an IDE DVD, the SATA one works fine. The entire problem was in the wiring of the SATA cables, I had them in wrong order. The mobo has 5 SATA ports, and i thought i had them in the right order, but going back to the mobo's manual, i found out i wasn't. So:- DVD goes into SATAII port 0 (to enable booting from it, if put in port 1 the system will not see it if hard drive has already a system installed on it)- Hard drive goes into SATAII port 1- Press F6 in installation screen and add the following:

Hi megacrypto, how did the installation come along? Would you report the functionlity of that mobo. I am looking at the Gigabyte GA-MA78G-S2h, and I am hoping that it would support UI3 or at least UI2. And also, does it have PXE booting/nettwork boot capability

To be fair ... runs great under win xp, and this is my first run on linux based system, having said that, as far as the graphic interface i could only get it to work UI1, UI2 and 3 won't kick. As for PXE booting, i really have no clue what that is

By the way PXE is network booting capability, used in MD for disk less installing throug a dedicated Core installation (eg uses no disk in MD, but is booting from a image on the core)

On a Sapphire Radeon 9600Pro 128MB, that was installed on MD that I tried out, did work in UI2 simple mode on a standard 710b4 install. So hopfully the 780 card will be supported soon in linux cause it would be great for HTPC use due to low heat emission/power use.

itspac: I have not really got to testing the sound, see im stuck with activating the remote that came with my case, and until now i had no luck with it, but will let you know as soon as i can figure out the remote.

gunsmoke: well i really don't think i will be able to test PXE, since that will require that i build another box, and honestly i can't put any of my other boxes down right now, not before i can get this one to run in full functions.

I'm interested to know about performance of ATI Radeon HD3200. Is it possible to playback HD video (720p or 1080p)? How is UI2 with overlay? Did you install the latest drivers for ATI cards as it suggested in the wiki - http://tinyurl.com/6b9p3k?